Minerals Council pays respects to Barry Davison
The Minerals Council South Africa has extended its condolences to the family and friends of Barry Davison, its former president and a key figure in South Africa’s mining history.
“We extend our heartfelt condolences to Barry’s family and friends, and we similarly mourn the loss of a man who was a true leader and played a vital role in the leadership of the mining industry at a volatile time of sweeping new regulations more than two decades ago,” says Minerals Council CEO Mzila Mthenjane.
Davison, who passed away recently, was a long-standing board member and president of the then-Chamber of Mines in 2002 and 2003, at a time when the new Mineral Resources Development Act was a Bill and the mining industry was advocating a legislative and regulatory environment conducive to allowing the sector to conduct its operations at an optimal level of success.
He was a key negotiator in the talks between the Chamber of Mines and the government on these matters.
Davison, who was executive chairperson of Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) at the time, supported transformation of the mining industry as political and economic objectives so that more people could be involved in the economy.
As noted in the Chamber of Mines’ 2003 Annual Report, proof of the mining industry’s acceptance of the transformation imperative was the fact that mining was the first of South Africa’s commercial and industrial sectors to work together with a government department and other major stakeholders to develop a broad-based socioeconomic empowerment Mining Charter.
Davison served in leadership positions in Amplats and Anglo American and he served as a director in listed companies including Nedbank, Kumba Iron Ore, Samancor and Tongaat Hulett. He was an independent nonexecutive director at Sibanye-Stillwater.
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